Fast Switch Hiring Index shows steady growth in Columbus

THE FAST SWITCH HIRING INDEX ("FSHI")
The FSHI is an index designed to measure, on a quantitative basis, the inclination of companies in the measured markets to hire full time, IT professionals. The index uses the number of online job advertisements from a proprietary selection of job posting web sites, as well as large corporate web sites, and takes into account a number of proprietary factors to provide a strong correlation to the change in the intent of employers in the measured markets to hire new IT employees.

Fast Switch used the week of December 7-11, 2009 as the index’s base week with a numerical index value of 1,000 for the Columbus, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan markets.

Fast Switch used the week of January 18-22, 2010 as the index’s base week with a numerical index value of 1,000 for the Cincinnati, Ohio market .

INDEX FOR THE WEEK OF	COLUMBUS	DETROIT	CINCINNATI
February 8-12, 2010	1,144	1,316	1,302
February 1-5, 2010	1,101	1,324	1,302
January 25-29, 2010	979	1,134	1,124
January 18-22, 2010	937	1,040
January 11-15, 2010	911	1,006
January 4-8, 2010	908	946
December 28, 2009 - January 1, 2010	997	1,039
December 21-25, 2009	1,013	1,064
December 14-18, 2009	1,032	1,063